Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
2026-08-05 17:46 UTC
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@phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2026-08-06 02:17
What has AI changed so far? Hardware prices are so far up that nobody can buy good hardware anymore we have AI child porn now, awesome we have AI undressing apps, cool we have AI, the great cheat tool now † we have AI, the confidently wrong 20% of the time tool we have AI, the great misinformation tool we are at the brink of the largest economic collapse in human history caused again by the rich loving to play Russian roulette there are a limited amount of actual useful applications as well, yay And all it cost us were millions of jobs, thousands of psychosis and deaths, hundreds of new loud polluting data centers, untold amounts of co2 when were right smack in the mids of a climate crisis… I’m not advocating for murdering the AI CEOs, but I’m definitely a fan of at least permanent tarring and feathering